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'G. D. YOUNG.

CARPEN'HER'S PLANE.

APPLICATION FILED lULY 12. 1916.

Patented .Dec. 5, 1916.

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CARPENTERS PLANE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 5, 1916.

Original application filed. September 30, 1915, Serial No. 53,205. Divided and. this application filed July 12,

T whom it may concern."

Be it known that I, GEORGE D. YoUNe, a citizen of the United States, and residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Carpenters Planes, of which the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to carpenters planes, and the object thereof is to improve a device of this class so as to facilitate the packing and shipment thereof and so as to make the plane strong and durable and provide the same with a detachable handle and improved means for attaching and detaching said handle; and with this and other objects in view the invention consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

This application is a division of a prior application filed by me September 30, 1915, Serial No. 53,205, and the invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of

which the accompanying drawing forms a part, in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a central longitudinal sectional view of a carpenters plane involving my invention; Fig. 2 a perspective detail view of a part of the means employed for attaching the handle to the stock or body of the plane; and Fig. 3 a side view of the handle detached and showing a part of the attaching means with a part broken away.

In the accompanying drawing I have shown at a the stock or framework of a plane and at b I have indicated the bridgework, the blade 5 the cap plates 6 and Z9 and adjusting parts 6 said stock or frame and said bridgework, blade, cap plates and 1' adjusting parts being all the same as in the prior application hereinbefore referred to and except in combination with the detachable handle as described form no part of the invention described and claimed herein.

In this invention the handle 0 is made detachable and the means by which the handle is made detachable and attachable when desired constitute the subject matter of the invention described and claimed herein and, in the practice of my invention, as shown Serial No. 108,792.

in the drawing, I secure to the bottom of the handle 0 a plate 0 which is provided at its front end with a downwardly curved lip portion 0 and at its rear end with a downwardly and forwardly curved hook member 0 and in the top of the front end portion thereof is a recess 0 I also provide a stock or frame attachment (Z which is shown perspective in Fig. Q'and which consists of an oblong plate having downwardly directed side flanges (Z and an upwardly curved front end portion (Z in which is formed a screw hole (P rcarwardly of which is a transverse slotd and a supplemental plate (l is secured to the bottom of the plate which forms the body part of the attachment (Z, and is shorter than said body part, and the attachment (Z is rigidly secured to the main stock or frame by welding or in any other way, and a screw 6 having a milled head a is passed downwardly and forwardly through the screw hole 0K and provided at its front end with a pointed nose c and all that is necessary in order to connect the handle with the plane is to move said handle forwardly so that the front end portion of the plate 0 will pass through the transverse slot 0 and so that the hook 0* at the rear end of the plate 0 will engage the rear end portion of the part d which constitutes the handle securing device as shown in Fig. 1, after which the screw 6 is manipulated so that the nose 6 thereof will enter the recess 0 in the top of the plate 0 and by means of said screw the handle may be drawn forwardly and locked into close engagement with the attachment d which is secured to the stock or frame.

The attachment d, as will be seen, forms an oblong keeper which is secured to the bottom of the stock and provided with a bottom channel and the front end of which is curved upwardly, and the plate 0Z is not an essential element of this device and may or may not be employed, and when the handle c is moved forwardly over the said at tachment or keeper the latter is engaged by the plate 0 secured to the bottom of said handle, and said parts are interlocked and are secured in the interlocked position by the screws 6 which produces a wedge-like action between said parts.

With the construction of bridgework and connected parts, as shown, and as fully described in the application referred to, the

said bridgework and connected parts are much lower than in other tools of this class and a handle of normal length or height extends much above the same, and when said handle is detached the tool may be packed in a much smaller space than with ordinary tools of this class, and said handle maybe quickly and easily attached and detached by hand, or without the use of tools or implements of any kind or class.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A planeprovided with a handle, and means for detachably connecting said handle with the stock of the plane, comprising a part secured to the stock and provided with a raised front end portion at the base of which is a transverse aperture above which is a screw-hole, and a part secured to the handle and adapted to slidably engage the part secured to the stock and the front end of which is adapted to pass through said aperture, and a screw adapted to be passed through said hole and to engage the front end of the part which is secured to the handle after it has been passed through said aperture, the rear end portion of the part which is secured to the handle being also provided with a hook adapted to engage the rear end of the part which is secured to the stock.

2. A plane provided with a handle and means for detachably connecting said handle with the stock of the plane, comprising a part secured to the stock and provided with an upwardly curved front end portion at the base of which is a transverse aperture above which is a screw hole and a part secured to the handle and adapted to slidably engage the part secured to the stock and the front end of which is adapted to pass through said aperture, and a screw adapted to be passed through said hole and to engage the front end portion of the part which is secured to the handle after it has been passed through said aperture.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of the subscribing witnesses this v 10th day of July, 1916.

GEORGE D. YOUNG.

Witnesses C. E. MULREANY, H. E. THOMPSON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the "Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

